Word: actions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...subcommittee whose majority recommendation the Research Policy Committee adopted Monday, explained to the Faculty yesterday how his subcommittee arrived at its decision in favor of Harvard's joining the policy board. But he prefaced.his statement by saying that it was "for the information of the Faculty, not for action...
...panel decides that some disciplinary action should be taken against Chapman, his case will then go before higher administrators in the Food Services Department and finally to John B. Bufler. director of Personnel. Chapman can then put his case up for arbitration by a non-Harvard party...
SPECIFIC sequences are handled similarly. Like Griffith's, or indeed most any director's. they hinge on the decisions of the characters within them. the completion or failure of an intended action. In such scenes Griffith cuts between the entirely separate emotional qualities and quantities expressed by the characters' faces, giving each a completely individual moral position. Splitting the drama's entire moral position. Splitting the drama's entire moral scheme into separate characters. he lets their conflicts play it out. Seastrom deals in shared emotions, unified atmospheres, and his characters' decisions are expressed in walking through rooms...
...characters in one long track along the village street. moving back as Puritans walk to church. To establish a social milieu Griffith would have cut between different characters. their homes, their personal peculiarities. Seastrom needs only one long shot that shows the Puritan villagers in a characteristic action and place. He uses the setting strongly and gives us masses of people never developed as characters. This leaves the drama far fewer contending moral and emotional terms. but lets it develop smoothly in one direction...